The Difference Between Preparing and Planning : certain vulnerability
Prepatory prayer is about that space, that opportunity, that moment that will shortly be upon me to be vulnerable to the Spirit of God. It is the petition for grace that I will faithfully respond. It is that vulnerability to whatever may be that differentiates preparing from planning. Lisa Kelly
plan for that
prepare for whatever
that ties me to
well known person
particular thing
certain outcome
plan for that
prepare for whatever
whatever sequesters space for
whosoever
whatsoever
every thing
plan for that
prepare for whatever
abandon plans
shed strategy
cast off schemes
cede certainty
plan for that
prepare for whatever
welcome Spirit
to address
chasm of naked
emptiness
Words through Debra Asis, by the grace of Infinite Generativity
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Lisa Kelly’s quote is found in today’s selection in An Ignatian Book of Days by Jim Manney is a series of daily reflections from the Spiritual Wisdom of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Throughout the book we hear the voices of St. Ignatius as well as many great thinkers and writers, long gone and present day, each uniquely revealing the way of finding God in all things. And that is my intention; to find God/Divine Presence/Ultimate Reality in whatever presents itself to me each day in 2024.
Each day I read, reflect and write on the selection, hoping to articulate the ways in which I come to know God/Divine Presence/Ultimate Reality via personal experience, impelled by the leading of my inner life.
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All words are generated by grace and the grit of a real human being,
Debra Asis writing challenge
